JAABWALK: TUESDAY, JULY 22
Morning constitutionalStart Time: 9:32 am
End Time: 9:55 am
Empty Courtrooms: 20 (not including empties at three Satellite Courthouses)
STOP WASTING MONEY ON JUDICIAL TAJ MAHALS & PRISONS FOR NON-VIOLENT OFFENDERS
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JAABlog: JAABWALK: TUESDAY, JULY 22
Morning constitutionalStart Time: 9:32 am
End Time: 9:55 am
Empty Courtrooms: 20 (not including empties at three Satellite Courthouses)
STOP WASTING MONEY ON JUDICIAL TAJ MAHALS & PRISONS FOR NON-VIOLENT OFFENDERS
Ha Ha!
Keep the spot light on how the court waste taxpayer's dollars.
love it...way to go JAAB. does anyone work around here????
Why not include the satellites?At least half empty all day everyday.
Well dumm ass, there is a county judges conference this week.
JOE ARPAIO, HE IS THE MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFF ( ARIZONA ) AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER AGAIN. These are some of the reasons why:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio created the "tent city jail" to save Arizona from spending tens of millions of dollars on another expensive prison complex.
He has jail meals down to 20 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.
He banned smoking and pornographic magazines in the jails, and took away their weightlifting equipment and cut off all but "G" movies. He says:
"They're in jail to pay a debt to society not to build muscles so they can assault innocent people when they leave."
He started chain gangs to use the inmates to do free work on county and city projects and save taxpayer's money.
Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.
He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again but only allows the Disney channel and the weather channel.
When asked why the weather channel, he replied: "So these morons will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs."
He cut off coffee because it has zero nutritional value and is therefore a waste of taxpayer money. When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."
He also bought the Newt Gingrich lecture series on US history that he pipes into the jails. When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series that actually tells the truth for a change would be welcome and that it might even explain why 95% of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.
With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record for June 2nd 2007), the Associated Press reported: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed wire surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.
On the Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing pink boxer shorts were overheard chatting in the tents, where temperatures reached 128 degrees.
"This is hell. It feels like we live in a furnace," said Ernesto Gonzales, an inmate for 2 years with 10 more to go. "It's inhumane."
Joe Arpaio, who makes his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. "Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for parole, only to go out and commit more crimes so they can come back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things many taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves."
The same day he told all the inmates who were complaining of the heat in the tents: "It's between 120 to 130 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to walk all day in the sun, battle gear and get shot at, and they have committed any crimes, so shut up.
like that would make a difference
Although we should punish people with jail and prison terms, we should also consider the possibility of rehabilitation for as many as possible. Not everyone can be changed, but we can fix some of the broken ones. We should all pay the punishment of imprisonment for crime, but if someone is to be released, we should hope that the imprisonment system was designed not just to incarcerate, but also to rehabilitate. Otherwise, we are returning a criminal to a crime scene.
I just flew in to Fort Lauderdale airport. Most of runways weren't being used when I landed. I guess we should close the airport down.
I just came from Pensacole and I waited for 5 hours and there were no planes landing. Next time I am there I will recommend to the city officials to close the airport. Good idea. Save some taxes.
Except the leaders of Pensacola and ft. Lauderdale aren't screaming for tax dollars to build new airports like the judges and money men are here because "they don't have any room to try cases."
No big surprise. None of the judges work before 10:00 and never after lunch. All this when the State is having the deepest budget cuts in Florida's history. No question about it: There are a number out campaigning trying to save their jobs so they can come back and, you've got it, do little of nothing, and when they do, not very well. Not all. But quite a number.
hey!
wake the phukup. we already have 4 cthouses here in Broweird.
Make MM cases go down out in South. Make Felonies be litigated at North.
I don't care. Just done tell US (the taxpayers) that we need a new (5th) cthouse when the others ARE DOING JUST FINE!!!
Wrong. Fort Lauderdale leaders have been looking for and getting dollars for airport expansion for years.
...You would have known there are several Judges are off the bench attending a conference this week. As for the others not attending or on the bench? Ask Carmel!
Two at conference, the rest keeping people waiting and counting on finishing by noon. See for yourself. Your Tax dollars hard at work.
"As for the others not attending or on the bench? Ask Carmel!"
Ha Ha!